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Reducing Distortion Using the Balancing Meditation
February 14, 2009 Question from G: I am studying the Law of One
and working with the balancing exercise, which I
understand to be this:
When at the ending of the day or when alone,
mentally examine, as with the scalpel of a surgeon,
each bias which you can remember. Attempt to
remember precisely the biases or qualities held by the
self at any moment during the experiential
space/time of the waking state. Consciously visualize,
feel and again become that bias. Slowly accentuate
that bias until it fills your being. Then visualize the
oppositely polarized bias. Do not create this bias
mentally, but wait until this is called from within
yourself by the process of natural discovery. Allow
this opposite bias to fill your being until it is as
accentuated as the bias you originally felt. Now
visualize an image filled with both things.
My question is, what is the meaning of the word
"bias" as used in this meditation?
(Carla channeling)
We are those known to you as the principle of Q'uo.
Greetings in the love and the light of the one infinite
Creator, in whose service we come to you this
evening. It is a great privilege and pleasure for us to
be able to join your meditation and to share our
humble thoughts with you. We greatly appreciate
the privilege.
It would aid us in our opinion-giving if you would
be so kind, when you read or listen to these words,
as to use your discrimination carefully and to sift
through those thoughts which we offer, winnowing
them to find the ones that are meaningful to you
personally and leaving the rest behind. They might
not be chaff on someone else's grinding floor but
they are chaff on yours. So, focus only on the
thoughts that resonate to you. We thank you for this
consideration, for it enables us to speak more freely,
not being so concerned with infringing on your free
will.
This evening the question has to do with the nature
of a bias as used in the Law of One sessions. To
grasp fully the word as used by those of Ra, it helps
to view the background or the environment of the
word and of Planet Earth, and the incarnational
experience of each of you on planet Earth.
The undifferentiated and unpotentiated infinite
Creator has no bias. There is one thing. That one
thing is self-understood and self-grasped and is
content. However, the infinite Creator, choosing by
the first distortion of free will to know Itself, has
created a system of densities through which all of its
sparks may proceed in order to experience all that
can be experienced, to satisfy all desires, and to move
through all the learnings of each density.
Each of you is a member of a third-density
environment at this time. You enjoy its limitations
and are used to following its rules. At the very heart
of the nature of third density is the dynamic tension
between all attributes and their opposites. It is a
heavily polarized illusion. The male and the female,
while of the same species, have many differences in
body and in mind. That male and female principle
may be seen both literally and figuratively as the
guiding rune or glyph or totem of your experience
on Planet Earth.
We are not saying that there is a contest going on
between men and women to decide which is the
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better sex. We are saying that it is the bisexual nature
of the species in general that is the kingpin of a
seemingly endless list of other attributes, each of
which has its opposite. Third density is chock full of
unbalanced, biased and distorted perceptions. We
would not say that this is a bad thing. It gives each
seeker the fuel that it needs to press forward. As used
by those of Ra then, "bias" can be a synonym for
"distortion," the movement away from complete
stasis and utter balance into one side or another of
the seesaw of dynamic opposites.
In the tuning song that was played before this
meditation, another very strong set of biases was
discussed when the one known as Yusuf said,
"Good's going high and evil's going down in the
end."1 There is a considerable mystery attached to
the question what is good and what is evil. We
would prefer to describe it in terms of polarity and
say that there is a radiant path of service to others
and there is a magnetic path of service to self. And
although it may be unfair to say that service to others
goes high while service to self goes low, nevertheless
it is true that the two dynamics are inevitable within
third density, and indeed within the next two
densities, the fourth and the fifth. This is how deeply
the sense of self and other, and any number of paired
dynamic opposites, can be seen.
In the Prayer of St. Francis which this instrument
uses to tune before each channeling session, more
dynamic opposites are offered:
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where
there is injury, pardon, where there is discord,
union, where there is doubt, faith, where there is
darkness, light, where there is sadness, joy. Oh
divine master, teach me to seek not so much to be
loved as to love, to be understood as to
understand, to be consoled as to console. For it is
in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in giving
that we receive and it is in dying that we rise, to
larger life."
1 Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, sings
these lyrics on his 2006 CD, An Other Cup, from the
song "In the End": "You can't bargain with the truth,
'cause one day you're gonna die, and good's going
high and evil's going down in the end."
And in the Lord's Prayer with which this circle
began its meditation tonight, there is the prayer to
forgive others as others forgive you.
All of these are examples of complementary biases.
Another simple example is the very homely one of
noting that this instrument just took a sip of water.
The bias was her thirst. The responding and
balancing bias was the glass of water. You may see,
then, that to call something biased is not to
denigrate it or disrespect it. There is nothing but
bias. There is nothing but distortion in all of the
nested illusions of your creation.
However, there is a gradual lessening of distortion
within each seeker's inner life as the seeker begins to
see into the inevitability of bias and, without
judgment, sees beyond that whole situation to the
balance that lies beyond and the eventual unification
of all opposites.
When a piece of fabric is cut on the bias and sewn
from the bias it has a tendency to create interesting
drapes and to enhance the style of a garment. It is
just so with human biases. Within an incarnated
human's life there will be a continuing and
continuous experience of seeing things from a
particular bias or slant, and then being able to
choose to rethink and re-vision and see things from
the opposite bias.
The question had to do with performing the
balancing meditation, which is recommended to be
done daily. During the meditation the seeker is
asked to sift back through the day, combing out
those instances where the self did not remain
evenhanded, placid and contented, utterly at peace
and balanced, but was pulled towards imbalance in
one way or another.
Perhaps it is your birthday today and consequently
you have a happy bias, for you have been given cake
and ice cream and something to open. That triggers
emotions within you. Even though it is a positive
bias, yet still it is grist for the mill for one who
wishes to train the consciousness to register not only
the bias of the incoming catalyst but also the
corresponding and answering bias.
The entity who drives a car poorly and surges into
your lane on the interstate highway can trigger
negative emotions; that is, emotions that have a
negative vibe. They might include fear, rage and
anger. That triggering catalyst has therefore caused
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your energy body to narrow so that the full flow of
the Creator's prana or light/love is not getting
through to the heart chakra. It is a totally
understandable bias to have these feelings
concerning the stranger who didn't even see you,
and who almost, or so it feels, took your life. As you
look at these moments of being triggered away from
balance you are able to effect a kind of healing of
that imbalance by virtue of allowing your original
emotion to intensify and then asking the dynamic
opposite of those feelings to appear.
Again, neither the positive nor the negative bias is
preferable, as much as it is preferable that the
dynamic opposites be held within the heart and the
consciousness in a balanced manner. The goal of
doing these balancing exercises is not to clean up the
energy body and then have it be "good to go" for the
rest of one's life. It is extremely rare that an entity on
your planet in third density shall be able to achieve
realization in such a way that no further thought is
taken, no questions are asked, no new solutions
reached. For the seeker's understanding will exceed
the narrow confines of his previous view of the
world.
Each of you dwells within a system of many biases.
There is the sexual bias. There is the bias of
personality. And the world as you experience it
contains bias upon bias. How can one learn, then, in
the midst of such a deeply biased environment? In
actuality it is because of the opacity of the illusion
and its relentless system of opposites that third
density works. For third density is about making a
choice, a very fundamental choice, of service to self
or service to others. It is indeed desirable to increase
that bias, attempting more and more to maximize
service to others within your life and your thought,
so that you may accelerate the rate of your own
spiritual evolution.
We are those of Q'uo, and would ask if there is a
follow-up to that query, my sister.
G: No, there is no follow-up. That was very helpful.
Thank you.
We thank you, my sister. We are those of Q'uo. May
we ask if there is a further query at this time.
D: Yes, Q'uo, I have a question about meditation.
The other night I was meditating and it seemed that
I perceived some kind of chamber between my
orange and yellow chakras, right between them. I
was wondering if you could comment on this and
also comment on the relationship between breathing
and the energy flow through the body.
We are those of Q'uo, and are aware of your query,
my brother. To respond to your first question, that
of the space between the second and third chakras in
your energy body, we would say that due to work
which you have been doing in consciousness at this
time, you are experiencing an articulation of the
second and third chakras which enables the energy
to move quite freely betwixt the orange-ray chakra
and the yellow-ray chakra. The work done quite
consciously by you, my brother, in the recent past,
working with your family members, creating
personal relationships from family relationships and
vice versa, has stimulated both the orange-ray and
the yellow-ray energy centers. The energies which
you felt were those which were running freely
between those two chakras. This is a positive and
helpful configuration, which was brought about due
to your loving concern for your family.
There are spaces betwixt each chakra in fact, and it
can sometimes become a complex and quite
beautiful thing to see the play of energy between
three or even four of the chakras at one time,
depending upon the activity or the thought processes
which are involved. You may find, my brother, as
you continue your practice of meditation that there
are several such potential sacs or shuttles or tunnels
between energy centers, all up and down the energy
system. It simply depends upon the work being
asked of that energy body at any given time as to
what the experience of it shall be.
We are those of Q'uo, and would ask if you would
again ask your second query, my brother.
D: Could you speak on the relationship of breathing
and the flow of energy through the body.
We are those of Q'uo, and are pleased to offer our
humble opinions on this subject. If you think about
the act of breathing, you easily realize how vital and
central the automatic functions of your body are to
your life. If one had to remind oneself to breathe,
one would shortly die.
The typical seeker may well have begun his life
breathing deeply, but by adulthood it is quite
common in your culture that there will not be the
hard, physical activity that encourages the body to
breathe deeply but rather there will be the smallReducing
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muscle activity of studying, using the computer, and
so forth. In the absence of a regular, daily period of
strenuous work, it is quite a helpful thing to work
with one's breath.
The simple act of following one's breath is a very
helpful technique to use for clearing the mind
during meditation. Deep breaths are most salutary
for the system. Just as the plant inhales light which it
metabolizes into food, so does your energy body
benefit from the deeper breathing in and out. The
deeper in-breaths do indeed carry light. And when
the intention is set to breathe in prana or light/love,
that greatly enhances the seeker's ability to receive
the food of light from the air.
The practice of various breathing techniques is well
known and certainly the use of such exercises as
pranayama yoga offers is recommended for those
who wish to enhance their ability to move love/light,
light/love, or prana through the physical vehicle and
metaphysical vehicle.
The benefits of breathing are striking for both the
physical body and the metaphysical body. When the
breath is deliberately deepened, the physiological
changes to the physical body are excellent.
We are those of Q'uo. May we answer you further,
my brother?
D: That's great, thank you.
We are those of Q'uo, and thank you, my brother. It
is a pleasure to converse with you. May we ask, then,
if there is a further query at this time? We are those
of Q'uo.
R: Q'uo, I have a question about thoughtforms. I
will start it by reading the section from The Law of
One that generated this question. Don asked Ra
about the reports and photographs of bell-shaped
craft and contact from entities from Venus from
approximately forty years ago and Ra answered by
saying that,
We are no longer of Venus. However, there are
thought-forms created among your peoples from
our time of walking among you. The memory and
thoughtforms created, therefore, are a part of your
society-memory complex.2
2 Ra, channeled through L/L Research on January
24, 1981, labeled Session 6.
The discussion we had [in our on-line study group]
was what a thought-form is, as Ra meant it. We
remembered that the pyramid that Ra created was a
thought-form and that Ra itself came to Earth to
teach as a thought-form. And so, we thought
perhaps a thought-form is something that does not
have consciousness but is something that can be
created by a being with consciousness. So, can you
describe the thought-forms in some other way?
Thank you.
We are those of Q'uo, and are aware of your query,
my brother. Within third density's space/time,
everyday environment it is difficult for the mind of
man to wrap itself around the concept that there
could be entities and essences which have no
physicality but which have there own validity and
reality. Were one to look at things from the
metaphysical or time/space point of view, however,
it is the thoughts of humankind that would stand
out, rather than the physical vehicles which in truth
are merely systems of nested energy shells.
A thought-form is an entity or an essence or quality
that has life independent of those who originally
thought about that first. The words of which you so
often think when you think about being a loving
and kind person-beauty, truth, honor, justice and
so forth-are thought-forms in the metaphysical
realm, having a life of their own and a nature of their
own. This is one instance of abiding thought-forms.
Another example of thought-forms is the common
phenomena concerning ghosts. When entities have
left the physical vehicle with which they enjoyed an
incarnation but for some reason do not wish to go
on into the inner planes for the review of their
incarnation and healing, that disembodied
personality shell which is commonly called a ghost
can linger in the physical world. Yet it is not at all
physical. [They may remain] indefinitely, until such
time as someone is able to contact those souls and
lead them on to taking up their rhythm of seeking
and learning through other incarnations and other
choices.
We of the Confederation have only appeared in your
skies as thought-forms. That is to say, there is no
physicality to the seemingly very real phenomena
reported as UFOs. Certainly those of the loyal
opposition, those engaged in service-to-self
communication with those who would wish that
communication upon your planet, have no qualms
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about appearing in the skies in perfectly physical
form. But we have long since discovered that it is an
infringement upon free will to move into your
physical existence. However, the thought-form of
the so-called Venusian bell craft is a form that is part
of the deep mind, for your people have seen these for
many millennia.
Other examples of a thought-form are the nature
spirit, deva, gnome and pixie. All of those creatures
are easily dismissed by an entity who wishes to
measure and judge the physical creation by empirical
means only. However, all of these forms of
disembodied life are real, in the same way that your
energy body is real. There are those who can see the
pulsing colors of the energy body, and there are
those who can see the fairies, gnomes and pixies.
There are those who dance with the devas and
nature spirits. For they have been gifted with a
broader and a deeper sight then their physical eyes
will allow.
All of these are good examples of thought-forms and
we would offer one more example to indicate how
the physical and the metaphysical world can
cooperate and coincide. If you will think about the
service in the Christian church call the Holy
Eucharist, you can see the priest invoking the
presence of the one infinite Creator in the person of
Jesus the Christ. There is an invocation that Jesus'
very being will come into the wafer of bread and the
sip of wine that each communicant shall ingest. For
those who believe, it is a powerful reality that they
are able to take in the very body and blood of this
crucified Savior whose unconditional love the whole
world recognizes. The benefit from the ingestion of
this thought-form, which is married to the wafer and
to the wine, is very real and efficacious.
Earlier, the one known as R stated that all of the
creation was made up of nothing but thought-forms
and we find this to be a perceptive point. The
original Logos, that Thought of unconditional love,
has indeed spun out the light to manifest all that
there is. Consequently, each entity is a form created
by the Thought of love, and patterned out in the
ways of love by light. In that sense each of you is a
thought-form, your physicality being less real then
your essence as a spark of that Logos.
We are those of Q'uo. May we answer you further,
my brother?
R: Yes, Q'uo, I have one follow-up question. Thank
you for speaking to the subject. The follow-up is
this. Seekers who are conscious of their progress
sometimes categorize their thoughts as positive or
negative. I wanted to ask what suggestions or
principles you would offer to those who are
conscious seekers on the path of service to others
when it comes to thought-forms created in the daily
round of activities? What suggestions would you
offer in terms of balance, or perhaps bringing more
love into the seeking and existence?
We are those of Q'uo, and are aware of your query,
my brother. The balancing exercises about which the
one known as G was asking earlier have as their
object the bringing back into balance of the
unsettled and uncontrolled mind and emotions. And
certainly the persistent use of the technique of
thinking through the actions of the day and being
willing to spend the time to balance out all perceived
distortions and bias is an excellent one for creating
the personal space in which you dwell.
There is often the unspoken assumption that life is
what happens to you. In such a scheme, however,
the seeker is a victim. This does not match our
perception of you. This instrument was speaking
yesterday afternoon to a client who wished to
understand how he could create of his life a more
sacred thing and this instrument shared with that
client her perception, with which we agree, that the
seeker shapes his life not in terms of what happens to
him but in terms of how he responds to what
happens to him.
We do not quibble with the fact that many things
occur which would not be preferred in everyone's
life. However, the mind or consciousness of man is a
powerful thing. You each have great power built into
your being. You have the ability to say yes or no to
each and every stimulus that comes your way. We
realize that we speak in clichés when we say that you
create your life. It is a staple of what this instrument
would call New Age thinking that your life is chosen
by you and can be shaped by you, by your desires
and your will. However, it is quite literally true, as
far as we know, that each of you does indeed have
the capacity to create the life which you prefer. [This
is] a large task with most entities who are attempting
to create a positive environment for their soul's
growth. The choice remains with each seeker as to
how he wishes to shape his inner environment.
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One large difficulty in shaping a positive
environment is the lingering of voices from early
childhood and even early adulthood which were
negative voices, voices that informed the young and
defenseless being that he or she was not smart, not
pretty, not able to get ahead, not worthy, and so
forth. Left untended, those voices can persist
throughout a lifetime. The insidious thing about
such voices is that many seekers have internalized the
voices so that they do not recognize that these are
not voices from within. These are voices of the pain
and the wounding of old memory.
It is very helpful, when you have a thought like, "I'm
stupid, I can't do it," or, "I'm not worthy," that you
find the time and the patience to correct that voice.
If you hear yourself saying something like that which
runs you down, step in and say that which is the
deeper truth, that which is positive: "I am a child of
the Creator. I am perfect. I may be a bozo but I truly
have love in my heart. It's too bad I made that
mistake. Let's see if I can do better next time." There
are many ways to take those negative voices and turn
the comment into an affirmation of your own worth
and your own self-respect.
The essence of creating your own environment is
respecting and honoring your ability to do so. Once
the seeker grasps his ability to mine for and bring up
to the surface those voices so that they can be put
aside and relabeled as old memory, it is with each
and every [seeker] a simple matter of persistence, of
seeing those triggers when they occur. Hearing the
negative voices and turning those voices away to
replace them with the voice of your own self
advocacy is immeasurable helpful.
We are those of Q'uo, and would ask if there is a
follow-up to that query, my brother.
R: You said earlier that thought-forms have an
existence independent of their origins. Does the
entity who generates the thought-form need to
maintain focus or feed energy into that thoughtform
for the thought-form to continue? Or will it
dissolve when the energy is no longer focused into it?
We are those of Q'uo, and grasp your query, my
brother. Thought-forms persist because they are
invested with many people's familiarity with them. A
good example would be Santa Claus. The figure of
Kris Kringle or Santa Claus is clearly a thoughtform.
There is no real Kris Kringle, there is no real
Santa Clause. Yet, when Christmastime arrives, your
people experience an outpouring of love and
affection and express their caring by creating food
baskets and gift baskets for those families who
cannot afford to have a Christmas on their own.
Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts of those
who wish to do good at Christmas time.
Thought-forms such as bogeymen and fearsome
monsters, dragons and so forth are all those forms
that persist because, over and over again, they have
been envisioned as storytellers tell the stories of your
race from generation to generation. Consequently,
there are many very persistent thought-forms.
There are also ephemeral and evanescent thoughtforms
that are an artifact of you as a person having a
certain habit, thinking a certain thought, until it
solidifies into a thought-form and can play merry
havoc with your life. Fortunately, just as you develop
thought-forms, so you can lay them aside.
May we answer you further, my brother? We are
those of Q'uo.
R: No, thank you for your comments, Q'uo.
We are those of Q'uo, and thank you, my brother.
We find that the energy is waning in this group and
in this instrument, and so we would take this
opportunity to take our leave of you, thanking you
once again for the pleasure of your company and the
beauty of your blended auras. You are an inspiration
to us.
We leave you as we found you, in the love and in the
light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.
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